Yang Sun-im

Yang Sun-im
Hangul 양순임
Hanja 梁順任
Revised Romanization Yang Sunim
McCune–Reischauer Ryang Sunim

Yang Sun-im (양순임, 梁順任) is a Korean activist who heads the Association for the Pacific War Victims (태평양전쟁희생자유족회, 太平洋戰爭犧牲者遺族會) and plaintiff groups for lawsuits by former comfort women. She is the mother-in-law of Takashi Uemura, a former reporter of Asahi Shimbun.[1]

References

  1. "Unraveling the 'comfort women' issue — Asahi under probe — Asahi, South Korean media shared sympathy". The Japan News. November 30, 2014.
  • Association for the Pacific War Victims
  • "양순임 태평양전쟁유족회장 사기 혐의 무죄 확정돼" [Yang Sun-im, a president of the Association for the Pacific War victims found innocent] (in Korean). Yonhap news. 29 August 2014.


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